Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a ...

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...

Learn more about the art of shopping at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Watch Artist Aymar Ccopacatty, National Museum of the American Indian Artist Leadership Program participant, show ...

While a January 2024 study shows that similar bans across the country have cut single-use plastic bag consumption significantly, many reusable shopping bag options are not particularly sustainable.

If Bozeman residents approve the proposed ordinance this week, theirs will be the only locality in Montana to impose a prohibition on plastic shopping bags and styrofoam. BPO proponents tout it as ...

Plus, New Zealand became the first nation to ban both plastic shopping bags and plastic produce bags. As for the California legislation, "we've known for a long time that plastic bags create ...

A series of studies led by Searious Business examines the barriers and levers for reusable packaging systems across five ...

Supermarket chain SPAR Hungary has introduced recyclable shopping bags made from the company’s plastic waste in its stores. The company says it uses 150 tonnes of plastic waste each year to ...

While the letter of the law stipulated that bags of any kind containing plastic, including reusable shopping bags, were to be prohibited, regulators at the New York Department of Environmental ...

RAWALPINDI: After a break of six months, the district administration has relaunched a campaign against plastic bags of less ...